The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-04-08

action TO enjo.n the cumpan o, from
combining III the IN liter OF output,
al IT the ev dence las been heard,
and the court reserves its dec sion.
William Bates of Whitley county.
Kentucky All ex-deputy United States
marshal, shot a man named Cheney
dead near the Tennessee line, and has
escaped to the mountains. Cheney
WAS the sixth man Bates has killed.
Under foreclosure proceed ngs the
Indiana, Binomin ton and Western
road has been sold for $3,000.000 to a
representative of the bondholders ana
wi be consolidated with the Cine IL
natl, Sandusky and Cleveland road.
Inquiries set on foot by the navy de-
partment, year ago, show thai tie
railroads can transport boats ITO ie
in length, and by the way If the e.
canal torpedo boats 1O0 feet long can
be taken from the Atlantic coast to tue
upper lakes.
The first application on the flies OF
the Interstate commerce comm ssl0n
is from the associated roa Is OF Ken
lucky, Tennessee, and Alabama, ASK
ing exemption from the short-ilau
clause of the law, because OF river
competition.
About two hundred commercial trav-
elers met in Chicago Saturday and pro-
tested against the advance i'll the price
of one thousand mile tickets OH the
railroads, and committee was APP
pointed to get more liberal cOustruc-
ton of the law.
An investigating committee has re-
ported to the board OF supervisors OF
La Sale county, Illinois, that large
deficits exist in the accounts OF the
late treasurer, sheriff, county clerk and
probate clerk The matter is now be-
fore the grand jury.
Roswell s. Ripley, graduate Of
West Point, who rose to the rank or
major in the war with Mexico, and took
sides with the confederates at the out
break of the rebellion, becoming
general, died of apoplexy Tuesday at a
hotel III New York.
Canvassing is about to commence in
Cincinnati for the guarantee fund OF
$1,000, 900 required to insure the success
of the Ohio centennial, to be held next
wear. The exposition is to be located
in Washington Oh Eden park, and will
last one hundred days.
1t is reported that combination OF
wealthy men, including Senator Payne
of Ohio, ErastuS Wiman of New York,
and james McLaren Of Ottawa, IS be-
ing formed to control all the valuable
iron deposits In Canada. now Sa5d TO
be the richest in the world.
Rumor has it that the divorce case OF
Vice President Hopkins of the Mis-
souri, Pacific has been settled. The
conditions are that the charge of inf
deity is to be Withdrawn against him,
he is to give his wife $300.OO0, and the
decree il to be taken for descrtion.
Dora f. Bennett, when found by a
policeman in grocery store at Ceve-
land, claimed to have been abducted
by three men from the house OF her
father mt Columbus, Ohio, and dTiven
away in Il buggy. Her shoes were
gone and her hair had been cut OF.
Samuel Topper, who killed himself ut
| Camden, Alabama, was cousin or
| Turner. the English landscape painter
| from whose estate he received $780,
OO0 DR.. A. q. Ely committed suicide
at Grard, PENNSYLVANIA. for fear that
his fortune of $lJ0,000 would slip
away.
The jury in the case Of eX-Alderman
Cleary of New York, charged with
accepting a bride to vote for the
Broadway franchise, disagreed and
were discharged. 1t stood SIX to SIX
Cleary renewed his bail of $40, OW
pending further action by the district
attorney in this case.
A number of the discharged New
York, PENNSYLVANIA and Ohio strikers
applied to other roads for positions
but were told that they could not bt
employed, as they were black-listed
The men intend bringing suit To-
damages against the New York, Penn
sylvania and Ohio company.
Barry Allen. was sentenced at Me
nominee, Wisconsin, on Friday TO fOu
wears in prison for rObbing Carson
Rands safe, at Eau Gale, that state
last summer. of $3.50. On his ln1orma
ton Charles Hunter has been arreste
! at Woodman, and Thomas GAMES
Eau Claire, for completely III Tn
crime.
The ocean yacht race was won b
the Coronet, which arrived OH queens
town about noon Sunday. The Oil
lance is 2.940 miles. Her apparer
time was Just inside fifteen days. lie
Shortest davis run was 1873 miles; he
longest 29l.5 miles. The weather Wa
uncommonly stormy. She carried
persons.
: A court in New York has been aske
I to enter nolle prOSequi on an lndlc
I ment for forgery found in 1854 again
0 man named Kissane, now said to
leading citizen of San Francisc
e bearing an assumed name. From u
! latter city comes protest OF Gener
G Francis Dorr, charging that Kissane
) murderer.
. Fou Sing and Peck Sig, implicated
the murder at st Louis of Lou Jon
= son. a Chinese detective, for Will
u crime two Cinnamon have been co
/ victed, were released at st. Louis
e Friday on their own rec0gnizance. L.
> ONLY witness against them Quol
Leng, who turned states evidence
lc now q lunatic.
I Delegations from eight towns alo
Il the Illinois river and the canal met
IL Tuesday at Ottawa and passed reso
il tions urging the legislature to del
action on the Chicago drainage bl
d, until the next session. A commit
s. of seven was appointed to. draft amer
a. ments to secure purity OF water ant
he commercial highway.
20 The governor of Virginia has be
advised by cable that the London ho
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